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Faculty Department Chair Asian History European History Latin American History Near Eastern & Islamic History U.S. History U.S. West History
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 Willard Rollings, Ph.D. Willard Hughes Rollings, Cherokee Native American, received his Ph.D. in American History from Texas Tech University (1983) and MA (1975) and BA (1971) degrees in History from New Mexico State University. He became a member of the UNLV History Department in 1989 and previously held positions at Southwest Missouri State University and Texas Tech University. In his nearly two decade-long career at UNLV Professor Rollings amassed a distinguished record of scholarship, teaching, and service to the university and the wider profession. He spent 1992 as a Fullbright Scholar lecturing on Native American Ethnohistory at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He published three books, including The Osage: An Ethnocultural Study of Hegemony on the Prairie-Plains (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992) and, most recently, Unaffected by the Gospel: Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion, 1673-1906: A Cultural Victory (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 200), and numerous articles on Native American history. Dr. Rollings taught a wide range of courses in Native American History and Ethnohistory, the American West, the Southwest, Nevada History, American History, and American Popular Culture. His excellence in the classroom was recognized in the conferral of numerous prestigious awards including: the Distinguished Teaching Award, UNLV (1999); the Spanos Award for Teaching Excellence, UNLV (1999); the William Morris Award for Teaching Excellence, College of Liberal Arts, UNLV (1997); and the UNLV Alumni Association Outstanding Professor Award (1997). |
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